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Female Parakeets Have Unusually Dark Brown Ceres

Category: Parakeet Community

Both my female parakeets (aged about 4 and 1) have dark brown ceres. They did not have this when I first had them, both from different pet stores. These ceres aren’t the common brown color of a female keet, they’re quite dark, almost burgundy brown in color. My eldest keet’sbeen this way almost all her life, and I hadn’t thought much of it until my younger keet started showing signs of darkening cere too. Have any parakeet owners on this site been familiar with a dark cere in either gender of parakeet? I’vehad seven parakeets in total and almost all of them have had it. They eat a diet of pelleted foods that I sometimes change throughout the year, along with fruit and veggies, save avocados, chocolate, etc. If any of you might know why this has happened please let me know, in detail. Thanks, Sabre.